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Adventure Genre

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Books in the Adventure genre:

Captain Blood His Odyssey (1922)

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Doctor Peter Blood is taken up in the aftermath of Monmouth’s Rebellion in 1685 and transported as a convict-slave to Barbados. Based on a true story the book tells of his transformation into the dread pirate Captain Blood. Read online at Hathi... View More

Author(s): Rafael Sabatini
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Ivanhoe (1922)

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A story of the contest between the Normans and the old Saxon nobility of England. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Sir Walter Scott
Illustrator(s): Frank Schoonover

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Memoirs of a London Doll (1922)

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Wooden doll, Maria Poppet, describes her many adventures in 19th century London. Read online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Mrs. Fairstar
Illustrator(s): Emma L. Brock

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Moby Dick or The White Whale (1922)

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Moby Dick or The White Whale has a good claim to the title of The Great American Novel. Based on the story of the Essex, whaler, destroyed by a whale in the southern Pacific Ocean, Melville draws on his own experiences as a seaman. Read online at Hat... View More

Author(s): Herman Melville
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

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Nobody's Girl (1922)

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Born of a Hindu mother and a French father, Perrine is on her way to France to meet her curmudgeonly grandfather when both her parents die. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Hector Malot
Illustrator(s): Thelma Gooch

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The Pathfinder or The Inland Sea (1922)

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In this episode in the Leatherstocking Tales, Natty Bumpo finds himself in love. The action is nonstop as the protagonists travel through hostile territory during the French and Indian War.... View More

Author(s): James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s): Frank Schoonover

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The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922)

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In search of Long Arrow the Indian, Doctor Dolittle and his companions journey to the floating Spidermonkey Island. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s): Hugh Lofting

Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal - 1923
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The White Company (1922)

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Alleyne Edricson joins The White Company of English mercenaries and serves as squire to Sir Nigel Loring during their campaigns in France and Spain under the Black Prince. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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A Boy of the Lost Crusade (1923)

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Young Roland Arnot joins the Children’s Crusade to search for his father in the Holy Land. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Agnes Danforth Hewes
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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Den hemmelighedsfulde Ø (1923)

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Prisoners of war held by the Union forces escape in a balloon and are blown out over the Pacific Ocean before crashing near a desert island. Interior illustrations by Tenggren.... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

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Det rullende Hus (1923)

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The steam house is an iron elephant that runs on steam. Includes The Demon of Cawnpore and Tigers and Traitors. Interior illustrations and possibly cover by Tenggren.... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

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Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office (1923)

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Doctor Dolittle discovers that animals also have a written form of their language and goes about setting up the fastest postal service in the world for them. Read online at archive org..... View More

Author(s): Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s): Hugh Lofting

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En Verdensomsejling under Havet (1923)

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Captain Nemo, the terror of the seas wreaks havoc among the shipping in the Nautilus. Danish translation, interior black and white illustrations by Tenggren, and likely the cover as well.

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

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Fem Uger i Ballon (1923)

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Verne’s first successful adventure novel takes three Englishmen across northern and central Africa in a hydrogen balloon. Interior illustrations by Tenggren.... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

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Jibby Jones: A Story of Mississippi River Adventure for Boys (1923)

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Summer time adventures of five boys on the middle Mississippi River based on the author’s boyhood in Muscatine, Iowa. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Arthur G. Dorr

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Jorden rundt i 80 Dage (1923)

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Phileas Fogg and the intrepic Passepartout set out to circle the globe in 80 days for a stake of 20,000 pounds dogged by the determined detective Fix. Danish translation, interior black and white illustrations by Tenggren.... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

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Kaptajn Grants Born (1923)

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Lord Glenarvan undertakes to circumnavigate the world at the 37th parallel in an attempt to locate Captain Grant of the Duncan. The former quartermaster of the Duncan later turns up in The Mysterious Island. Interior illustrations and possibly cover ... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

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Kaptajnen paa 15 Aar (1923)

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In this nonstop melodrama the crew of a whaler pick up a group of shipwrecked seamen, are turned around and end up in west Africa, are enslaved, escape and make their way back to America. Interior illustrations by Tenggren.... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

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Kejserens Kurér (1923)

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While on his way to Irkutsk to warn the governor of a plot to betray him to the rebel Tatars Michael finds a wife and nearly loses his life more than once. Interior illustrations by Tenggren.... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
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Keraban Stivnakke (1923)

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To avoid paying a tax to cross the Bosphorus, Keraban takes a seven hundred league detour around the shore of the Black Sea. Also published in two volumes: The Captain of the Guidara and Scarpante the Spy. Interior illustrations by Tenggren.... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
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